KU graduate now recruits
Peace Corps seeks minority groups
Photo by Steve Fritz
Peace Corps week progresses
Delano Lewis, deputy director of Volunteer Placement for Minorities, confers with Homer Butles, director of Specialized Recruiting, over plans for Peace Corps Week. The two men will be in the Kansas Union Oread Room every day this week from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Planes may provoke Arabs, Rogers heard
TUNIS (UPI)—Tunisian Premier Bahi Ladgham said Tuesday he told Secretary of State William P. Rogers that the continuing supply of war-planes to Israel by President Nixon was a "provocation" to the Arab world.
Rogers, on a 10-nation tour of Africa, conferred with Ladgham and other Tunisian leaders Tuesday while heavily armed police kept at bay mobs of youths chanting, "Nixon assassin" and "Paleastine is Arab."
He said the demonstrators "had a right to express their opinions."
The Premier, in a session with American newsmen traveling with Rogers, gave the impression that he condoned the student demonstration against U.S. Mid-east policy which went on most of the day in Tunis.
Largham's blunt warning that Nixon was adding insult to injury by continuing to supply war planes for Israel came as something of a surprise.
Although Tunisia and the United States naturally differ on the Middle East question, American officials had not expected any such blunt attack on Nixon's policy in public at this time.
Taken against a background of demonstrations in which many of
ISP to meet plan election
The Independent Student Party (ISP) will hold a meeting at 8 p.m. tonight in the Kansas Union Jayhawk Room to discuss the Student Senate Elections this spring.
Buzz Fischer, Bird City junior, said the agenda of the meeting will include a discussion of issues for the elections and the nomination of the student body president and vice-president for the party.
"We hope anyone interested in student government will attend the meeting. We will take nominations from the floor and then vote by a secret ballot. Hopefully this will be the most democratic way to nominate candidates for both president and vice-president," Fischer said.
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the students shouted "to hell with Nixon," Ladgham's statement tended to wind up Rogers' meetings here on a note of something less than harmony, despite Tunisian official protestations of great and enduring friendship for the United States.
Rogers, after a mid-day meeting with Ladgham, announced the United States was giving Tunisia an additional $2.9 million for flood relief.
The secretary cancelled a scheduled visit late Tuesday afternoon to the University of Tunis. The official explanation was that he did not have time because he must talk more with Bourguiba. However, officials privately said it was obviously impossible to go there with hundreds of student demonstrators awaiting him.
A panel discussing questions of interest about the Peace Corps will meet at 4 p.m. today in the Kansas Union Forum Room. The questions under discussion are: "Is the Peace Corps Relevant? Has it done its job? Is it an extension of American imperialism?"
Peace Corps panel
The panel will be held in conjunction with KU Peace Corps week Feb. 9 to 13, and Peace Corps month as proclaimed by Gov. Docking.
A question and answer session will follow the discussion.
By STEVE FRITZ
Kansan Staff Writer
The Peace Corps, until recently, has been lax in its recruiting of minority groups, said Delano Lewis, Peace Corps Deputy Director of Volunteer Placement for Minorities, Tuesday.
The 1960 KU graduate said, Peace Corps should represent the entire United States. Until last year, Lewis said, the Peace Corps has been thought of as a white middle class organization.
"My job with the Peace Corps," Lewis said, "is directed at the recruiting and selection of volunteers from minority groups." The individual must still decide whether he wants to be in the Peace Corps or not, he said.
"We want the Peace Corps to be an organization that represents all the people of the United States," he said.
Lewis said the Peace Corps wants to encourage members of minorities to think abut volunteering their services.
When Lewis joined the Peace Corps in 1966 he was given a position on the staff in charge of all Nigerian volunteers. Lewis was faced with the problem of withdrawing the Peace Corps volunteers because of the Nigerian Civil War.
"The Peace Corps was not ordered out of Biafra and Nigeria," Lewis said, "but the Nigerian government advised us to leave." Since the government was more interested in making war than in development, the Peace Corps was withdrawn, he added.
Lewis said the Peace Corps is using the communications media to gain a larger minority audience.
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"We are going into minority communities," he said, "and working with church groups and presenting special programs to tell the people we need them."
At Atlanta University, Lewis said, the Peace Corps program is applied to the Masters of Education degrees. The student, he said, is required to do one semester's
study prior to his work in the Peace Corps and one semester's study after the Peace Corps.
The basic approach for minority recruiting, Lewis said, is to be informal, not to pressure anyone, and to offer them equality. "The Peace Corps is trying to reach members of minority groups as individuals," Lewis said, "not as groups."
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